MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra's Essel Group expressed confidence in winning the bid for the modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai Airports after it, along with five rival consortia, submitted bids to the civil aviation ministry minutes before the deadline today.
 
 

Among the others left in the fray from the original shortlisted ones were the Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Energy and the South India-based GVK and GMR consortia.

Two consortia that pulled out of the bidding process citing restrictive government conditions were the Bharti-Changi Singapore Airport consortium and the L&T-Hochtief Airport GmbH team.
 
 
"Now that people have withdrawn the uncertainties are over and we are very confident of winning the bid," Essel Group senior V-P Ashish Kaul told indiantelevision.com.

Essel has teamed up with TAV group of Europe to bid for the modernisation of airports in Delhi and Mumbai under the name PanIndia Paryatan-Tav combine.